Possible interest in short, free NL

[Pat Barber]

Put it up...they will come(to coin a really hokey line) as will I.

Charles Self wrote:

[skeezics]

works for me charles. sign me up! fartntouchit at hotmail.com.

skeez

[Robert Bonomi]

Call it an 'image', even name it with the extension for a recognized image format. make the _acutal_ content of the file a MS-executable.

Windows is _so_dumb_, that it looks at the file 'type' (based on extension) to figure out whether or not to automatically 'execute' the file, and then

*ignores* the extension, and looks at the actual content to determine *how* to execute it.

Furthermore, there *are* exploits of defective code in the MS 'jpeg' decoder. which allow you to embed malicious *code* into the 'data' of a properly- constructed .JPG file, and it _will_ be executed.

I won't debate terminology. "text description"

[Dave Hinz]

Ah yes, that little joyful thing.

Yes it does. That can get really frustrating if you have two .'s in the filename.

I thought they fixed that? But yeah, I remember that now.

I wasn't trying to play word games, I assure you. so yeah, that's a tag, not a link as in "click here". They're handled differently, otherwise I wouldn't have made the distinction.

[Matt Stachoni]

Nonsense; Windows parses the filename from the end backwards to determine the extension. I can easily have a file called this.is.a.picture.of.my.nephew.jpg and Windows knows how to launch the file viewer.

If you're gonna bash Windows for some file system issue, at least double check your facts.

Matt